I have a long-running command that I've been running in screen so as to be able to interact with it when it encounters bugs. But I'd also like to be able to start it via another shell script (which ...

I have the following situation, I have a running GNU screen session where I can't access AFS anymore - my token has expired. I can however access it from a new shell. The difference to this question ...

I am using the RemoteLoginAutoScreen script to start a screen session when I ssh into a host.
Differences from linked script: I am using zsh and the RemoteLoginAutoScreen uses bash
The problem that ...

I connect to Host1 using ssh and start a screen session. From one of those windows I ssh into the Host2, which launches a screen session on login.
How can I create new/switch between screen windows ...

I am making a python program, whose output (not input) can be viewed via the screen program. However, the problem is that doing this allows the user to turn off the program via the Keyboard Interrupt ...

I am making a python program that launches on bootup, and I would like it so that I can interact with that program via the "screen" command, so that if I need to talk to the progarm via a different ...

Not concerned with conventional attaching and detaching, I'm talking about restoring a screen session after shutting down my system entirely.
I usually have changed to various directories depending ...

I'm using screen /dev/tty.usbmodemxxxx to debug a physical device. An unavoidable part of my workflow disconnects and reconnects the device, causing screen to terminate; so I need to start it it up ...

I use GNOME desktop environment under FreeBSD. I had multiple tabs in GNOME terminal 2.26 and in each tab I had an ongoing screen(4.00.03) session. I logged into one of the remote servers with SSH and ...

I'm trying to make an ssh connection (via lsh) from one Ubuntu host to another from within screen. If I try to run mc right after that I get the following error:
Unknown terminal: screen-256color-s
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I want to start a process in a terminal using cron. I want the process to start in a terminal, so that I can continuously see the output of the process on the terminal, and kill it / restart it etc. I ...

Pressing Ctrl+A, H, lets me log output of the screen command. However, the output file is too large.
Is it possible to apply a grep-like filter so that I can control what gets logged?
For example, I ...

I posted this question on stack overflow already but after looking up similar questions I realized this is a much better place for it (and it only got 8 views after 10 hours on a Sunday). If necessary ...

I like to pop up a screen session with pre-opened SSH connections to the primary servers that I administrate at the office. I give these windows each a very brief name, typically 2-4 characters, so ...

I'm trying to write a script to capture output of perf top
Similar to top, perf top detects the screen size and fill information to the screen. But sadly unlike top which has a batch mode, perf does ...

I want to have a certain script (rails rake task) running on my server at all times - it basically populates my DB using a live feed. I can create a screen (http://linux.die.net/man/1/screen) and run ...

I am using the screen command for starting server running in foreground. But in case there is an error when starting server I am not able to see the output of command. I have to run it again without ...

I have to run some scripts in a screen and I used the C-a H command to record the output to a screenlog.0 file when I press the shortcut keys the message is Logfile "screenlog.O" closed. But if I try ...

Protecting a GNU screen session with a password is good security. However, how does one remove the password if you need to share a session with a colleague?
I tried the following to clear it and got ...

This is my current .screenrc files which is mostly copied from the link in the code
#First iteration 2014-09-06, not quite sure of stuff to add
# got a fancy hardstatus line noted below
hardstatus on
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I ssh to a remote computer, and create a screen session there. Then I lose the internet connection. When I ssh again to the computer, I want to see if the created screen session is still there, so I ...

I have Matlab running in a Linux session for almost 2 days, and afraid to lose the computations if my network connection fails. Will moving Matlab to the background and starting 'screen' be the answer ...

Is there a way to take a "screenshot" of linux screen command. In other words can "screen -r" command to be called with the same behaviour as "top -b -n 1" - print contents once and exit.
Background ...